Is Meat and Milk From Clones in the Food Supply?
It’s just a matter of time before we are eating clones, if we are not eating them now. When Canadian agricultural leaders asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack last week after a scandal about unlabeled clone products in Europe if “cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply,” he said, “I can’t say today that I can answer your question in an affirmative or negative way. I don’t know.” And when a reporter asked the USDA this week if cloned products are already in the food supply, a spokesman said the department was “not aware of an instance where product from an animal clone has entered the food supply” thanks to a “voluntary moratorium”– but that offspring of clones, at the heart of the Europe scandal,” are not clones and are therefore not included in the transition.” Sounds like Europe is not the only place eating milk and meat from unlabeled clone offspring. In fact, the BBC, UK newspapers and even a US grocer all report that US consumers are dig
